Every little girl needs their own wand, right? Make your own fairy wand with a pencil + ribbon!
My 4 year old is as girly as they come. Last week she was playing dress up and she was decked out in fairy princess gear from head to toe. As she danced and pranced around the room, I noticed she had a regular old #2 pencil in her hand that she was using as a wand. Not only did this clash with her other fairy princess attire, but it hit me that among all the tutus and tiaras in the dressup box, we had no magic fairy wands! Enter Fairy Supermom and save the day with a little magic of her own…
Butterfly Fairy Wand Tutorial
SUPPLIES –
- pencil
- ribbon
- scrapbook paper
- scissors
- clear packing tape
- thumb tack
- glue gun
- butterfly stickers, optional
DIRECTIONS –
- Cut a strip of your scrapbook paper to the length of the pencil (not including the eraser) and about 1 inch wide.
- Secure the scrapbook paper to your pencil with a thin strip of tape. Cut another strip of clear packing tape to the length of your pencil and a bit wider than your strip of paper. Roll the taped paper tightly onto the pencil and secure with the overlapping tape. Now your pencil looks like its laminated, and maybe the paper won’t get as ruined in the mouths of little princesses casting magical spells!
- Cut some ribbon to the length you want (mine were about 7 inches long). You can cut as many ribbons as you want.
- Assemble the ribbon how you want it by sticking one ribbon at a time through the push pin. Push a tack into the eraser and secure it by adding some hot glue around the edges.
- You could stop here, but my daughter insisted on having a “butterfly wand”, so I added a topper with a butterfly sticker. To do this, I cut 2 circles out of a piece of scrapbook paper, placed the butterfly stickers on each circle, then glued the circles to the top of the pencils with some hot glue.
And POOF! 1 fun butterfly fairy wand and 1 happy little fairy princess!
This post originally published on Somewhat Simple in September 2010. It was updated in February 2017.
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wonderful idea!
I want one! I want two!
Okay that is so cute! 😉
That is so sweet!
Um i have to make that!! We just got fairy wings, and she would just love it!
Delightful!
What a fun idea. What little girl doesn't need a different wand for every day??
This is a great, simple idea. I will have to give it a go!
Cutest wand ever! Great idea!
So cute! My daughter would love it
I love this wand! My daughter would love it even more. Thanks for sharing it!
I love your ideas!
ohh.. i love that !!!!
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SO cute!
cute idea!
So cute! Thanks for the idea!
I adore this!!! THANKS!!!
Amber
I know of two little girls that would play with these forever.
I HAVE to make this. Too adorable.
What a great idea! It would go great with a fairy princess Halloween costume!
I have two princess granddaughters who would love one of these!
My daughters would love that wand.
Fun stuff!
Oh, very cute. I hope I have a little girl around soon to be a princess!
I have a little fairy princess at home that would adore one of these!
Love your fairy wand!
You're totally convincing me to make these!
so many fun ideas!!!
Awesome!
Oh my heck, the fun you could have!!!
So cute! My niece would love this!
The butterfly makes it!!
My daughter wants to be a butterfly for Halloween….this would be PERFECT!
Oh I love the fairy wand! What a great idea.
How cute! I'm having my first girl and I can't wait to do all the girly stuff!
What a fun wand! So perfect for the "girliest" of little girls!
My little lady would love one of these.
The fairy wands would make great birthday party giveaways.
So cute!!
I love the wand. When my baby girl is big enough I will definitely be making her one of those.
I need one of these.
This combines 2 of my favorite things! Butterflies and wands :):) Love it.
So cute, and looks so easy! Thanks for sharing!
Very creative wand idea!
That wand is so cute…my granddaughters would each love me to make them one.
Simple & cute. I like it!
🙂 Jeanette
This butterfly wand is so cute!
My little girl would LOVE a wand like that. So cute!
That is such a clever idea.
Very cute! I'm not very girly myself and my only child is a boy, but I'm hoping for a girl next time around, and I'll probably get a princess 🙂 Ideas like this will come in handy if I do get a girl!
SOOOO cute!
What a cute idea!! I'll have to keep this tutorial in mind when my little 1 yr old girl gets a little older 🙂
Doing a princess party and was trying to come up with an idea for a princess wand.
Great idea! I will have to make one for my daughter, she would adore it.
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Sooo darn cute…. I love it…
My daughter would love an adorable wand!
I similar made butterfly wands last week for my daughter's 1st birthday using cookie cutters, but this would have been much more fun!
Fabulous idea! This would make great party favors for a princess party. lilsunbeams@ymail.com
Cute idea! I am going to make these for my daughter's….Thanks!
What a cute wand! And so simple, too.
Thanks for the tutorial. My granddaughters will love these!
That is one cute wand!
What a great idea! I have a little fairy princess in need of a wand. 🙂
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oh my gosh….i love what you did!
Very creative! Love it!
Such a fun little project! Love the colors and the butterfly on the wand (it's a little different and it's nice to not see the normal star on the top!)
I can't wait to make one of these!
Cute! My nieces would love that.
So cute, I just need a little girl now. 😀
Cute, cute wand!
That is so cute!
My daughter def needs a wand!
The wand is clever, what little girl would not love one of her own.
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Love it!
That is so creative! I'm sure your daughter loved it!
How cute! My daughter would love it…using a rockband drumstick for a wand 🙂
very cute. I wish my daughter still loved fairies…
Leslie
Love the ideas for kids – it's not always easy to see the wide scope of what you can do – I really appreciate your blog for this very reason! Thanks again!
What a clever and cute idea! The Halloween ideas are just pouring into my head now! Maybe Jane could come stay with us for a weekend =) I love reading your posts, thanks again!!!
My 3 year old is a princess until the boys are around, then she can rough and tumble it with the best of them. She does have such a good imagination though, she can turn any stick into a wand to give everyone "slippers" like on Cinderella. How cool would it be to win a machine like that so I can make her a custom "real" wand!
Cute wand! And MUCH cheaper than the ones from the fair!
That is such a fun and sweet idea for a little girl.
Debbie
I have to make one of these!
That is adorable!
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SO precious! My daughter would LOVE something like that!
That is so cute! I bet your little fairy princess loved it!
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